tion:INTRODUCTION: “History is the recorded struggle of people for ever increasing freedom and for newer higher realisation of the human process. The common people possess the capacity to MAKE history. In FACT the historic initiative of the masses has time and again produced social cataclysms that have changed the world.” The subaltern approach centers on and around the people, as people CONSTITUTE the central theme of history. The subaltern studies of history claims to be an improvement on the elitist MODE (both Marxist and Non-Marxist type) of exploring and explaining history. This mode of explaining history also known as “history from below” aims at constructing the paradigm of subaltern consciousness manifesting in different forms, at different places, and at different times. ‘Subaltern studies’ is a new trend of writing history, like other trends i.e. Imperialism, Primitivism, Nationalism, Marxism, Neo-Marxism, Feminism, Ambedkarism etc. The need of rewriting and revaluation on the basis of narration of history is being expressed. Objectives:- 1) Explain the meaning and nature of the Subaltern History. 2) A study of rise and growth of the Subaltern History writing. Subaltern Studies : A New Trend in Writing History Abhijit Sahoo 3) A study of available sources for the Subaltern History Writing. 4) The survey of early contribution of Subaltern History writing in India. 5) Criticism and Response of the subaltern studies. Meaning of subaltern studies:- ‘Subaltern’, meaning ‘of inferior rank’, is a term adopted by Antonio Gramsi(1891-1937), an Italian Marxist and Communist Party Leader, refers to those groups in society who are subject to the hegemony of the ruling classes. A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalised or oppressed. From the Latin roots sub- “below”, and alternus “all others”, subaltern is used to describe someone of a low rank (as in the military) or class (as in a caste system). Subalterns occupy entry-level jobs or occupy a lower rung of the “corporate ladder.” But the term is also used to describe someone who has no political or economic power, such as a poor person living under a dictatorship. Different kinds of synonyms are used for the word ‘Subaltern’, like: common people, lower-class, UNDERPRIVILEGED, exploited, inferiors, minors, weak etc. British Historian, E.P. Thomson wrote an